Coopers & Lybrand Risk Institute To Bring Together Academics And Practitioners In Study Of Financial Risk.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. today announced the establishment of the Coopers & Lybrand Risk Institute, a forum for leading academics and market practitioners to collaborate on applied research in financial risk management. Among the notable academic figures who already have agreed to participate in the institute are Drs. Darrell Duffie James Darrell Duffie is a Canadian economist. He is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and has been on the finance faculty at Stanford since receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1984. and Kenneth Singleton Kenneth Jan "Ken" Singleton is an American economist. He is a leading figure in empirical financial economics, and a faculty member at Stanford University. His recent research in econometric methods for estimation and testing of dynamic asset pricing models has been highly , professors of finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business; Dr. Andrew Lo, head of the financial engineering laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, ; and Dr. David Heath
David William St. , a professor of mathematical sciences at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate School of Business. In addition to underwriting research grants aimed at developing and publishing new methodologies, products and tools for the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. industry, the institute will host conferences on these research topics. Initial research areas will be capital allocation, emerging markets risk, credit risk and risk adjusted performance measurement. James J. Vinci, a partner in Coopers & Lybrand's capital markets industry group and a leader of the firm's multi-disciplinary financial risk management practice, will serve as director of the Risk Institute. In addition to Coopers & Lybrand, participating practitioners in the Risk Institute will include Gifford Fong of Gifford Fong Associates, a California firm situte reflects the firm's belief that "partnersinstitutes and think tanks, such as the Whartonill dedicate itself to developing applied soluti Lybrand's financial risk management practice is drawn from the firm's consulting, business assurance and litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. support areas, providing a depth of experience and knowledge in all major risk categories, including market, credit, operational, reputational, regulatory and event risks. One of the world's leading professional services firms, Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P. provides services for enterprises in a wide range of industries. Coopers & Lybrand offers its clients the expertise of more than 19,000 professionals and staff in offices located in 100 U.S. cities and, through the global network of Coopers & Lybrand International, more than 82,000 people in 138 countries worldwide. CONTACT: Coopers & Lybrand, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Steven Silber, (212) 259-4059 steven.silber@us.coopers.com |
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